Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ensued a squabble royal while the library stood inscriptionless. Wrathful Monsignor Ladeuze caused to be clandestinely prepared a second set of balustrade stones spelling: In Bella Reducta; In Pace Resti-tuta ("Destroyed In War; Restored In Peace"). The secret leaked out. Mr. Warren hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof...
...hard to change over to the Latin alphabet used by U. S. citizens and all his Croatian subjects. But just now His Majesty is launched on a passionate campaign of national unification (TIME, Oct. 14). Therefore he announced last week that he would shortly suppress Cyrillic by royal and dictatorial decree...
Hoary and respected Professor Nicholas Jorga, onetime tutor of King Mihai's harum scarum and now exiled father, Prince Carol, rose from his Deputy's seat to propose the candidacy of his old pupil. A member of the Royal Family should be elected, he urged, but not a woman. "Have you forgotten," he cried, "that the Constitution restricts membership in the Regency Council as well as occupancy of the Throne to males...
...fact that romantic Montenegro is no longer an independent state (see above) does not prevent its royal princes, still filled with romance, from traveling under their oldtime royal titles...
...London and Rome gifts last week brought Mr. Eastman a distinguished visitor, Dr. Florestan Aguilar, dentist to the Spanish royal family and president of the International Dental Federation, who like the Italian Ambassador traveled to Mr. Eastman's home at Rochester. Dr. Aguilar's visit presaged more Eastman dental clinics in Europe, the next one probably at Madrid...